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Roland 40XL Cube Guitar Amplifier
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Fri August 10, 2012
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Description:
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40-watt guitar amp with 10” high-performance speaker
Three footswitchable channels, including JC Clean,
Lead, and Solo with memory capability
10 COSM amp models
Eight effects, including: Chorus
Flanger
Phaser
Heavy Octave
Delay with tap tempo
Spring Reverb (Digital)
Plate Reverb (Digital)
Tremolo
80-second Phrase Looper built in
Power Squeezer for full gain at low volume
Hands-free channel switching via footswitch (sold separately)
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Posts: 313
Registered: June 2011
Location: Australia
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Freethenoise
Registered: June 2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 313
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Review Date: Thu June 9, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $369.00
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Very versatile, Compact and loud, Very durable
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Cons:
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Chorus needs to chill out, tuner isn't very good
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I bought this amp about 5 months ago and I was very impressed.
I always thought that Roland was more of a....... fancy brand in the sense that they were afraid to actually add some gain or restrict the user to the clean tone of the jazz chorus while being afraid to get a little dirty. I was wrong. Very, very, very wrong.
(I'll just say now, that I play mostly clean stuff looped with a VDL1, I keep a big muff because I do like going into the occasional White Stripes or even Nirvana song as well as general distortion. But if I do covers, White Stripes, Raconteurs or Red Hot Chili Peppers are usually the order of the day)
At it's heart it is as versatile and loud as it is solid and kick-proof.
The amp simulations (In my opinion of course) stomp on any line 6 simulator that I've ever heard.
the amp sims are as follows:
Acoustic sim
Black Panel (Based off a Fender Twin Reverb, probably my most used)
Brit Combo (Based off a Vox AC-30)
Tweed (Based off a Fender Bassman)
Classic (Based on a Marshal JBM)
Metal Stack (Peavey EVH-5150, I really didn't like this setting, but I don't like metal, so, you know)
R-fier (Based on a Mesa Boogie Duel Rectifier, I really love this setting, I use it for high gain rather than the metal stack)
Extreme (Original Roland Design, A little brighter than the metal stack)
Dyna-amp (Original Roland Design, This one intrigues me, the harder you strum or pluck the more gain is added)
The effects are quite good, it's a sort of scroll to increase the presence and strength of the effect. My only issue is the chorus on this amp, even on the slightest setting it is way too extreme.
I have a boss CE-5 though, so I rarely use it (I'm not much of a boss man, which is weird considering I like this amp)
The delay is quite good, the knob increase the number of repeats and volume and there is a tap tempo which can be manipulated to increase the time by a set amount.
Two kinds of reverb both come in this box, plate and spring, both digital. Let me just say, I love the plate, sounds nice and warm and is great for a John Mayer tone complimented by the Tweed amp sim. The Spring however, while I do use it, on the higher settings, sounds like it's trying just a bit hard to say 'AHHH, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A SPRING, SO I'LL MAKE IT SOUND LIKE I DO'. Forgive that outburst, but what I mean is that, it makes that spring sounding click really, really annoying. Some people like that, so, you know, not that big of a deal but, if they had chilled out a bit and made a nicer sounding digital reverb instead of trying to simulate a real spring so hard, it might have turned out a little better.
The looper is alright, but without a foot controller (They could of at least included one) it's pretty annoying to use considering you have to take your hand off the guitar. To start recording it has a recording standby though which starts to record the loop the second it detects noise. This is alright, but sometimes it doesn't pick up the noise and doesn't start recording.
The main appeal of this amp is that it has three switchable channels, JC (Jazz Chorus clean) Lead and Solo. JC clean is, as the name suggests, just a clean setting, lead is where the amp simulators can be accessed, and solo can memorize any setting you put into the lead or JC clean channel.
For example, if I were playing on the Tweed simulator with a small amount of chorus and wanted to go into a heavily distorted solo, I could preset that, save it into the solo setting, and with the use of a footswitch, swap back and fourth between the two presets with the before mentioned footswitch. As I said before, Roland could have at least given one free footswitch considering to use the function without one you have to take your hand off the guitar.
This thing is loud enough to do a gig with, I play in my schools chapel band and if I stretch it a little bit it can be loud enough to handle a 400 person open undercroft (Not sure how good that kind of thing is for the speaker though)
In summary, I really like this amp, I never really had many tube amps to play around with but I do play my friends 15w Vox Night Train and I have no idea where I'm going with this so I'll stop now.
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Never played a tele I didn't like!
Youtube demos and anything that springs to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MemorymanDL/feed?filter=2
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GrantR
Registered: May 2011
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 165
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Review Date: Sat January 21, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Great sounds, versatile, and simple to use.
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Effects loop would be nice to have, but over all, not much wrong with this amp.
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Great little amp. Before owning this amp, I had no idea of the quality of sounds produced by these Cube amps. They are a great sound in a small package. Don't underestimate them. They don't look like particularly professional tools to me, but loads of people use them that way in small venues, or through the PA, and love them.
I certainly do.
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Michel347
Registered: November 2011
Location: Montreal
Posts: 121
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Review Date: Wed April 11, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $250.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Great tones, easy to dial
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Cons:
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should come with foot switches
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I like it very much great tones at a small price. Effects are just ok, but I don't really care, delay and reverb are fine. Hey even John McLaughlin used to use a Cube60.
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Andy553
Registered: May 2012
Location: Antwerp
Posts: 5
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Review Date: Thu May 31, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Compact, good sound, loud, durable
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Cons:
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Tuner
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This is a very good little amp. It's compact, very durable and pretty loud. There are quite a lot of effects on this amp and they're definitely not bad. Also the JC Clean channel is pretty good. There are a lot of amp simulations and even though it doesn't sound exactly like each original amp (obviously), it does give you a good idea of what each of these amps are like. I've had this amp for about half a year now and so far I haven't had any problems with it.
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oldwhatshisname
Registered: June 2012
Location: Corpus Christi
Posts: 25
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Review Date: Fri August 10, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $199.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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sound, looks, effects, reliable
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Cons:
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needs pedal for at least the looper, metal and extreme are similar
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gret amp, bought it and i am now selling my SCXD, yeah....that's right... I said it!!!
Less noise, less maintainace, takes pedals well, has a great headphones jack.
I love the tweed with a little dirt, sounds like the 57' deluxe setting on my X Mustang iii, yeah, iv'e owned them all, and i think ill stop with the 40xl
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